Senior Software Engineer

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ActBlue

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Online Fundraising • Technology • Organizing

201 - 500

💰 $22M Series A on 2010-08

Description

• ActBlue is a nonprofit that builds tech and infrastructure for Democratic campaigns, progressive-aligned causes, and people trying to make an impact to fuel long-term, people-powered change. • As a Senior Software Engineer at ActBlue, you will help shape the growth of our platform by improving ActBlue’s core systems, primarily our donation forms. • You will perform front-end and full-stack work on a product team focused on growth and conversions. • Work with your team to architect, refactor, and improve our core systems to facilitate feature delivery within our donor-facing contribution forms and admin-facing form creation flow. • Guide the design and execution of technical solutions prioritizing high impact opportunities, balanced against effort, scope, and other trade-offs. • Collaboratively develop and champion best practices and design patterns to improve platform maintainability. • Demonstrate technical leadership by writing excellent documentation, establishing effective monitoring, and fostering clear communication. • Grow as an individual and increase your impact with support from your manager. • Offer coaching and mentorship to other engineers and solicit it from them in turn.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of relevant professional experience • Experience executing large projects that involve multiple engineers, complex requirements, and high ambiguity • Experience in React, Redux Ruby on Rails, as well as in developing and maintaining server-side web applications • Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders and to collaboratively translate business requirements and strategic goals into technical solutions • A strong track record of delivering results that achieve business/organizational objectives • A deep understanding of industry practices that contribute to quality code delivery; familiarity with Cypress and other testing suites • Ability to write technical proposals that clearly articulate risks and trade-offs • A track record of effective collaboration with other engineers to develop abstractions and patterns that make it easy to build reliable, maintainable software • Eagerness to explore and refactor legacy code • A team player mentality. You keep the end user in mind and enjoy hearing feedback from your teammates, yet know when and how to defend your own ideas in a respectful manner • Comfort collaborating with a distributed team of many remote colleagues • An inclusive, generous working style: You like to elevate your team by mentoring, collaborating with, and supporting your peers • Excitement for yourself and your teammates to learn and grow • A thorough understanding of performance, scalability, and security concerns

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy • Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability • Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option • Dependent and health care flexible spending account options • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees • Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions • A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included) • Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees • Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times